Keynotes, Consulting, and Strategic Advice to help organizations RETHINK constraints and turn them into their distinct advantage.
AI | Trust | Futures
Too many organizations are stuck, jammed or trapped, held not by immovable obstacles, but by beliefs and assumptions. When you breach those beliefs, new fields of opportunity appear.
Your most useful constraints can be invisible to you. Identifying them, then rethinking them, consistently reveals the source of your organization’s distinct advantage.
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THE FOUR-STAGE FRAMEWORK
Some constraints, often the most important ones, can be invisible to you. Learn to see them.
Now imagine a world in which that constraint has been changed. What shifts in your perspective?
What new forms will your organization and markets need to fulfill this new perspective?
Now set a course and set things in motion to make your new strategy a reality.
BENEFITS
Knowing where you're heading
The press and stress of competition doesn't give us enough time (or neural capacity) to look up, never mind look around. Looking around is essential to see if we're headed in the right direction.
Rethinking your constraints leads to innovative visions of positive futures for your enterprise, and usually for related stakeholders.
Many constraints break trust
Traditional consumer advertising seems essential for a consumer-products company, but it involves a series of breaches of trust, including invasions of privacy, manipulation, and unwanted noise.
What does getting the word out about your products and services look like if it's genuinely trustworthy?
Change the rules & stand out
When you shatter your industry's constraints, your competitors will be hard pressed to follow.
Important constraints take more than planning and execution to shift. They require a shift of perspective and attitude, for a start. Then they take great planning and execution.
The path to meaning and purpose
Many of the boundaries we cross in our work are also barriers to people finding meaning in their work. Breaking those boundaries frees people to do work that is more aligned with their values, rather than compromising them.
Meaning and purpose don't require employee engagement campaigns; they require rethinking your business so it better aligns with their values.
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